Red roses - Part 2

Arjun unlike other guys was happy being the love messenger. He spent three days to send love messages on behalf of his friend. But it failed miserably. The first time when he tried, he had sent a message through a kid who was waiting for the bus. Unfortunately the kid was a teenager trying to catch a bus for his tuition. But Arjun had to get his message sent to the girl. He had promised his friend. He hate breaking them.

Instead of sending the message the damned kid exchanged numbers with her and didn’t even bothered to share the number with him.  Arjun came back home disappointed. However the next day he came up with the strangest idea which he believed would work. He had tried this many times and it did work.

He stood, waiting for the girl. His purpose of morning walk now contained a mission- How to connect two love bird ( though he had no clue about how the female love bird felt for her male counterpart. Atlast!! After waiting for an hour, she came. He gathered his courage and folded the message he had written in form of paper planes. He threw it across her. But it fell inside the blossoms of the fat lady standing next to her.  The fat lady took it out from where it had fallen.The lady walked towards him and hit him badly. Due to this commotion, people surrounded him to show him how indecent he was. He came home with broken bones and fractured leg.

After few days of hospital care, he was back to his old tricks. His obligations towards his friend was still not over. He wasn’t sure whether his friend was serious or not. Maybe it was his adrenaline drive of making two people meet even though there was probability of any kind of love existing between the two. He didn’t like to keep the tasks undone.

He drew up a plan of how to get the girl. He weighed pros and cons of the plan and after lot of groundwork, he came up with foolproof plan. He had made sure that this didn’t fail. So the day arrived when he would execute the imaginary work. He woke up early morning in order to be the first one to buy all the roses from the shop vendor. He bought the red roses and paid the vendor royally. The girl came at her usual time. She asked for the red roses and the vendor said that he didn’t have any and asked her to buy the other flowers. She wasn’t interest and walked away slowly. Her face became dull. She walked with her face down.

He was happy as well as sad. But he had to get the two people acquainted. This was the best possible way. He had called his friend to be on time with the bike. He prayed that his lazy friend made on time. Though he knew his friend’s changed behaviour after seeing the girl but old habit don’t change easily. Atlast! His friend came with the bike. Arjun didn’t complain for the five minutes delay. His friend got out of the bike and sat behind while Arjun made himself comfortable being the controller of the bike. He rode slowly towards the girl. His eyes was on the path she was walking and his attention was focused on how to control his friend’s weak knees. Suddenly he turned his eyes towards the road and saw a puppy near the wheels of the bike. He used the brakes to halt the bike. Due to the force he used to stop his bike, he almost lost the balance of the vehicle and fell hard on the ground. His friend was also wounded badly.

(To be continued)